The Android operating system also allows a wide variety of applications, but with one major difference that sets it apart from its competitors: Android is open source.

So what are the five top tips for developing secure Android applications? Android applications exist in an apk format. These apk files are similar to zip files; they just have a different extension.

Overseas media 9to5 Google reports that Google is developing an iOS application 'Switch to Android' that enables data migration including data of such applications.

While simple applications accessing the Web and bringing information back to the phone are appropriate for these types of frameworks, mobile apps relying on intense calculations and heavy database ...

Android can’t recognize speech, so a typical Android device cannot recognize speech either. Or, is there a way it can? The easiest way is to ask another application to do the recognition for us ...

The best thing about Android is that it is open source. Developing and submitting apps to the Android Market (now Google Play) is far easier than doing the same for Apple's App Store.

Now that Google’s Android 4 SDK is out, what do developers need to know to create Android apps that wil run on the future Intel-based smartphones and tablets?

Android has many bugs, some of which are impeding development. Unfortunately, Google's QA infrastructure for the platform is completely inadequate for a project of Android's scope and magnitude.

With 3.48 million apps, Android is still the best smartphone platform. New apps emerge every day to serve Android users in many different fields of ...